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echo: r_catholic
to: Ray Fischer
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-25 21:24:28
subject: Re: Does the universe prefer life?

From: stumper 

Ray Fischer wrote:
> stumper   wrote:
>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:04:09 -0400,
stumper 
in
>>>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>>>>
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> stumper 
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Not all things in the
world are physical.
>>>>>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Many things are way beyond
our comprehension.
>>>>>>>>>>> Obviously true.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> God might be be one of them.
>>>>>>>>>>> But probably not.  Especially
since you don't even know what
>>>>>>>>>>> you mean by the term "God".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> God might not be not something
>>>>>>>>>>>> to be proved or even understood.
>>>>>>>>>>> The race is not always to the
swift nor the battle to the strong
>>>>>>>>>>> but that's the way to bet.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What if God is the universe and some more?
>>>>>>>>>> How do we prove that the universe exists?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What if God is everything there ever was,
>>>>>>>>>> ever is, and ever will be?
>>>>>>>>>> How do we prove that such God exists?
>>>>>>>>> What if none of that is true?
>>>>>>>> It's just a hypothesis.
>>>>>>>> So, such God exists by definition.
>>>>>>> Logical fallacy: Assuming the conclusion.
>>>>>> What makes you think you exist?
>>>>> 1st Meditations.
>>>> What makes you think the universe exists?
>>> I don't care if it exists, wanker.  It's a useful working hypothesis
>>> to assume that it does.
>> Exactly!
>>
>> What makes you think your self exists?
>
> 1st Meditations.
>

Do you believe in your government?

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~Stumper

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